I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh: 'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.' 3I have put off my coat; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; How shall I defile them? 'My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, And my heart was moved for him. "I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with flowing myrrh, Upon the handles of the bar. "I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had turned away, and was gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. "The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me. I adjure you, O daughters of If ye find my beloved, What is thy beloved more than O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?' 13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, Dropping with flowing myrrh. 14His hands are as rods of gold Set with beryl; His body is as polished ivory 6 This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.' 'Whither is thy beloved gone, That we may seek him with thee?' To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, And to gather lilies. Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Terrible as an army with banners? "I went down into the garden of nuts, To look at the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, And the pomegranates were in flower. 12 Before I was aware, my soul set me Upon the chariots of my princely people. I am my beloved's, and my be-7 Return, return, O Shulammite; loved is mine, That feedeth among the lilies.' "Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as an army with banners. "Turn away thine eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That trail down from Gilead. "Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which are come up from the washing; Whereof all are paired, And none faileth among them. "Thy temples are like a pomegranate There are threescore queens, The daughters saw her, and called her happy; Yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 10Who is she that looketh forth as the dawn, Return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulammite? As it were a dance of two companies. 2How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like the links of a chain, The work of the hands of a skilled workman. "Thy navel is like a round goblet, Thy belly is like a heap of wheat "Thy two breasts are like two fawns non Which looketh toward Damascus. "Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses thereof. We will enclose her with boards of 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is cedar. 1oI am a wall, And my breasts like the towers thereof; Then was I in his eyes As one that found peace. "Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; He gave over the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof Brought in a thousand pieces of silver. before me; Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereot two hundred. 13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken for thy voice: 'Cause me to hear it.' 14Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a gazelle or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices. רות RUTH 1 AND it came to pass in the days of her husband.' Then she kissed when the judges judged, that there them; and they lifted up their voice, was a famine in the land. And a and wept. 10And they said unto her: certain man of Beth-lehem in Judah 'Nay, but we will return with thee went to sojourn in the field of Moab, unto thy people.' 11And Naomi he, and his wife, and his two sons. said: "Turn back, my daughters; And the name of the man was why will ye go with me? have I yet Elimelech, and the name of his wife sons in my womb, that they may be Naomi, and the name of his two sons your husbands? 12Turn back, my Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of daughters, go your way; for I am too Beth-lehem in Judah. And they old to have a husband. If I should came into the field of Moab, and say: I have hope, should I even have continued there. 3And Elimelech a husband to-night, and also bear Naomi's husband died; and she was sons; 13would ye tarry for them till left, and her two sons. And they they were grown? would ye shut took them wives of the women of yourselves off for them and have no Moab: the name of the one was husbands? nay, my daughters; for Orpah, and the name of the other it grieveth me much for your sakes, Ruth; and they dwelt there about ten for the hand of the LORD is gone forth years. "And Mahlon and Chilion against me.' 14 And they lifted up died both of them; and the woman was their voice, and wept again; and left of her two children and of her Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but husband. Then she arose with her Ruth cleaved unto her. 15 And she daughters-in-law, that she might re- said: 'Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone turn from the field of Moab; for she back unto her people, and unto her had heard in the field of Moab how god; return thou after thy__sisterthat the LORD had remembered His in-law.' 16And Ruth said: 'Entreat people in giving them bread. And me not to leave thee, and to return she went forth out of the place where from following after thee; for whither she was, and her two daughters-in-law thou goest, I will go; and where thou with her; and they went on the way lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall to return unto the land of Judah. be my people, and thy God my God; And Naomi said unto her two 17where thou diest, will I die, and daughters-in-law: 'Go, return each there will I be buried; the LORD do so of you to her mother's house; the to me, and more also, if aught but LORD deal kindly with you, as ye death part thee and me.' 18 And have dealt with the dead, and with when she saw that she was stedfastly me. The LORD grant you that ye minded to go with her, she left off may find rest, each of you in the house speaking unto her. 19So they two |